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“See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.”

World Firsts Heart May Christian Interest Sin Study Duty Succeed Casts Stranger Flesh Chiefs Holiness Internals Great Work Seeming

Book:The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings

Source: The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings

“I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.”

Want Bigs Stranger Fats Belly Wrinkles Looking Down

Author:Clark Gable

“More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.”

Thinking Interest Space Acting Imagine Citizens Resources Stranger Corporate Solidarity Retreat Private Life Takeovers

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.”

Thinking Needs Enough Fronts Singing Crowds Stranger Hostile Karaoke

Author:Diablo Cody

“My only challenge was to tell my truth, man... figure out what I had to say. These days, it's not enough to boost that roomful of strangers. The young comic spends all their time trying to sound different from the million other jokesters grabbing for the mic.”

Men Trying Different Enough Young Sound Challenges Millions Figures Stranger Comic These Days Boost Grabbing Mics My Truth

Author:Lenny Bruce

“Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.”

Speak Ready Ill Stranger

Author:Aeschylus

“Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you can... Never stay too long in your bed. Never lose your heart, use your head... Never take a stranger's advice. Never let a friend fool you twice... Never be the first to believe. Never be the last to deceive... Never leave a moment too soon. Never waste a hot afternoon... Never stay a minute too long. Don't forget the best will go wrong... Better learn to go it alone. Recognise you're out on your own. Nobody's on nobody's side.”

“A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had been bestowed upon him.”

Men Children Dies Three Dog Honor Blessing Medicine Misery Stranger Thanks Teenager Feds Afghanistan Agony Foreigners Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Jihad Smallpox Zealot Wild Dogs

Book:I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller

Source: I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller

“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”

Ifs Use Remember Fiction Doubt Truth Is Regard Possession Stranger Valuable Telling The Truth When In Doubt Stranger Than Fiction Valuable Possessions

Author:Mark Twain

“When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.”

Kind Stranger Lawyer Countryside Johannesburg

Author:Nelson Mandela

“I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.”

People Whole Compassion Risk Sacrifice Stranger Fascinated Acts Of Courage

Author:Diane Ackerman

“...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'”

Heart I Can Drink Grateful Stranger Hungry Meat Thirsty Grateful Heart

Book:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition

“But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?”

Ifs Thinking Littles Long Has Beens Care Lasts Speak Process Risk Rewards Stranger Chiefs Encounters Peculiar Who Cares Think Of You

Book:A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory

Source: A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory

“It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?”

Want Needs Security Stranger Submit Unlikely Couches Psychiatrist Analysts Prowling

Book:Tallulah: My Autobiography

Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography

“You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.”

Has Beens Letters Stranger Mail Conventional Email

Author:David Letterman

“If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.”

Ifs Memories Photograph Stranger

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“Don't talk to strangers. Sure, unless you want to meet anyone ever.”

Want Stranger

Author:Demetri Martin

“To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours.”

Hate Interesting Stranger Faster Volume Hate You Very Interesting Crank

Author:Demetri Martin

“Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing.”

Giving Years Reason Stranger Dislike Halloween Day

Author:Demetri Martin

“There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger.”

Giving Lines Fine Stranger Dry Fine Lines

Author:Demetri Martin

“With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.”

Men Respect Stranger Old Man Candy No Respect

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.”

Thinking Feelings Home Night Worst Late Clothes Sitting Stranger Coming Home Couches Me Alone

Author:Dane Cook

“If you want to have sex with strangers, you have to do it the old fashion way and become a prostitute.”

Ifs Way Want Sex Fashion Stranger Old Fashion

Author:Chelsea Handler

“Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.”

Ifs Simple Kindness Century Type Phones Stranger Cells Cell Phone 17th Century

Author:Iris Apfel

“I have no idea what a high school party looks like. I was just with my friend, and we were walking down Venice and there was this gathering of people playing Bongo drums, and so after dinner we sat down with them and played Bongo drums for a while. That's the closest thing I've gotten to a high school experience, meeting strangers and just hanging out with them.”

People Looks Ideas School Party Walking High School My Friends Meetings Stranger Dinner No Idea Sat Hanging Out Closest Gathering Venice School Experience Bongos

Author:Ashley Rickards

“It's an amazingly consistent thing with Irish people. We will talk to strangers at parties for hours. It's what we were bred to do I think. And the Jewish people were bred to write the stuff that we say.”

People Thinking Writing Stuff Hours Party Stranger Consistent

Author:Greg Fitzsimmons

“I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.”

Feels Littles Doe I Can Done Written Paint Stranger Pictures Of Myself

Author:Pippa Middleton

“I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find what I'm looking for outside of myself. It doesn't exist out there. Maybe it's only in here, inside my head. But my head is glass and my eyes have stopped being cameras, the tape has run out and nobody's words can touch me.”

I Can Eye Running Form Empty Cameras Glasses Stranger Emptiness Copies Tape Carbon Futility Touch Me

Author:David Wojnarowicz

“I want to leave the world as I entered it: naked and crying in a room full of strangers.”

World Want Rooms Cry Stranger Naked

Author:Dana Gould

“I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.”

Years Kind Hard Wanted Attention Laughing Brother Ten Stranger My Brother Family And Friends Athletic Stardom Being Funny Gimmicks Strangers And Friends

Author:Gary Gulman

“My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.”

People Thinking Way Looks I Can Guy Laughing Creative Rich Brother Easier Taxes Stranger Spending Profession Saving My Brother Components Rich People Saving Money Manageable Life Saving

Author:Gary Gulman

“Strangers come up to me in bars and tell me about their sex lives. I'm thinking, 'You think I can make it better somehow?'”

Thinking I Can Sex Come Up Stranger Bars

Author:Chris Harrison

“I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with my life, so I decided to let people decide for me. For month I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following, not because the party interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, and finally lost sight of them. At the end of January 1980, I chose a man and followed him to Venice. That's how I started. That's all.”

People Knows Men Years Ends Home Lost Pleasure Party Streets Movement Months Decided Sight Notes Seven Following Stranger Traveled Seven Years Back Home Venice January

Author:Sophie Calle

“I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.”

People Knows Mystery Comfortable Stranger

Author:Alec Soth

“I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.”

Knows Asks House Wish Hell Stranger Who I Am Ask Me Awkward

Author:Andy Ihnatko

“When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.”

Ifs Knows Connections Deeper Stranger Fifth Drummer

Author:Dave Grohl

“Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?”

Looks Earth Wonder Standing Mirrors Stranger Miles Standing There

Author:Justin Hayward

“I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.”

World Streets Stranger Dynamics

Author:Rachael Yamagata

“You can be a victim of a crime and not exercise great judgment. And when women have been sexually assaulted, they feel like they have to have been perfect in order to have anybody believe them. They think nobody will believe them unless a stranger jumped out from behind a bush with a knife - not that they got too drunk and that a guy they thought they knew, you know, took advantage of them in a physical, assaultive way.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Believe Has Beens Guy Order Perfect Behinds Crime Exercise Judgment Advantage Victim Stranger Drunk Knives Sexually

Author:Claire McCaskill

“There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.”

People Way Mean Self Opinion Perspective Illness Stranger Self Worth Mental Illness Unhealthy

Author:Moby

“I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. And I think a lot of people get to that point - specifically, sort of getting comfortable looking out for yourself and taking care of yourself and defining yourself based on healthier criteria, and not criteria that's established by complete strangers that you've never met.”

People Thinking Care Figures Mets Comfortable Aspect Stranger Defining Criteria Take Care Of Yourself Look At Yourself Professional Life Public Figures Define Yourself

Author:Moby

“I mean obviously we're all dealing with a lot more strangers due to the web. I'd say it has more to do with the quality of interactions. When you're physically interacting with someone, it forces you to be more present and probably a little more uncomfortable. You have to tolerate being outside the comfort of your own home.”

Mean Littles Home Force Quality Comfort Stranger Dues Uncomfortable Interaction Tolerate Interacting

Author:Miranda July

“You've got the people you know, which are problematic. Always. They're rich but they're also real people living their lives alongside you. Then you've got the people that you make-up completely, who are often missing a dimension if they don't have some reference to real people. So strangers exist in this in-between space, where in not knowing them, you are creating a fiction for them, even in passing, but at the same time, there they are, with their actual bodies and their actual clothes. It's totally enticing.”

People Ifs Knows Real Body Space Fiction Knowing Rich Missing Creating Clothes Stranger Passing Passings Dimensions Not Knowing Enticing

Author:Miranda July

“Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one stranger. This always seems like a bit of a failing on my part, as a human. I think that's also why I put myself situations where I'm forced to engage in other ways.”

Thinking Way Humans Bigs Seems Bits Situation Audience Failing Fronts Comfortable Stranger

Author:Miranda July

“A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.”

Ifs Eye Political Opportunity Trouble Drama Crisis Stranger Witness Traveler Revealing

Book:The Lower River

Source: The Lower River

“At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.”

Night Stranger

Book:The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.”

Looks Country Lasts Names Taught Worship Stranger Pacific Rio

Author:Barack Obama

“Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never met, you're pretty much going in and taking off your pants in front of strangers, so it's a really weird feeling.”

People Writing Two Feelings Song Fronts Mets Stranger Pants Really Weird You Re Pretty Weird Feeling

Author:Scotty McCreery

“The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.”

Should Stranger Flaws Submit Counting Manhattan Manuscripts

Author:Richard North Patterson

“Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.”

Knows Humans Matter Roles Destiny Mankind Taxes Stranger Revolutionary Taxation Controversy Human History Catalyst Revolutionary Change

Author:Owen Arthur

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